The Tip of the Iceberg: An Unexpected Turn in the xDedic Story

21

Jun

2016

Last week we reported on the xDedic underground marketplace that facilitated the selling and buying of access to compromised RDP servers.

We counted over 70,000 hacked server accounts from 173 countries for sale on the marketplace. After the public announcement the xDedic website very quickly went offline, thanks to the cooperation of several major ISPs. However, it seems that this was not the end of the story.